But early on, when I was still researching, Alberto Mora asked me, Are you going to show torture? I think I naively assumed that he wouldnt want me to, so I said, Im not sure. Im very anxious about shooting those scenes. What do you think?
Alberto Mora, a former Navy general counsel and an early critic of the Bush administrationprogram, said: Arguably, those detainees that suffered the techniques that went beyond thoseapproved by the previous administration might have a criminal or civil liability.
The Constitution Project report cites Alberto Mora, the general counsel of the Navy, as being one of the senior officials troubled by the expanded interrogation techniques, and quotes him as asking Yoo whether the president could lawfully order a detainee to be tortured.
And yet the history, as recounted by Philippe Sands in Torture Team, for example, shows that there were such people, both in the CIA and among the military legal counselors who sought to exclude evidence based on torture. Morris Davis, Stephen Abraham, and Alberto Mora are the names of some of them.